fraud

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned of a scam operation pretending to be Devon-based advice firm Investment & Financial Solutions Partnership.

A financial adviser has been jailed for three years after admitting 13 counts of theft from his pensioner clients.

Two investors are taking TenetConnect to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) after unsuccessfully trying to retrieve money lost due to what they claim was negligent advice to invest in an unregulated overseas property scheme.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appealed Thursday's court decision to halt its case against a group of alleged fraudsters after no barristers were willing to represent them.

A fraud case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was halted after no barristers were willing to represent the defendants following recent legal aid cuts.

A mortgage broker has been jailed for six years after fraudulently obtaining almost £3.5m from clients in the North East.

Matthew Ames, son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman David Ames, has been jailed for 40 months for cheating investors out of £1.6m via an elaborate Ponzi scheme.

An adviser working for Lloyds Bank has avoided a jail sentence despite stealing more than £200,000 from elderly clients to fuel his gambling habit.

A 21-year-old has been arrested and interviewed as part of a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into boiler room fraud.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend.